NEW: New Market Ramp Closed Overnight

Posted: August 27, 2014

By AMELIA BRUST

Daily News-Record

HARRISONBURG — The Interstate 81 northbound on-ramp at mile marker 264 in New Market will be closed overnight for milling and paving, the Virginia Department of Transportation announced this afternoon.

The right northbound lane will be closed from 7 p.m. tonight until 9 a.m. Thursday morning, VDOT said. To access I-81 north, drivers will be detoured east on U.S. 211, then north onto U.S. 11 and, finally, west on Caverns Road, at which point they will enter the interstate at exit 269 in Mount Jackson, VDOT said.